Julio Afrânio Peixoto, Brazilian psychiatrist and coroner (Lençois, Bahia State 17 December 1876 – Rio de Janeiro 12 January 1947)
Internationally known as criminologist
Authored 15 psychiatric works
His thesis Epilepsia e crime (1898), aroused great interest in foreign scientific circles
Sugested a protocol for autopsies like that of Virchow. Two great names of forensic medicine Locard and Lombroso praised Peixoto’s protocol
Inspeção de naso-faringe por um novo processo de autópsia. Gaz. Med. Bahia, 1901
Established a criterion for characterize the symptoms of paranoia
With J. Moreira. Paranoia e os syndromes paranoides. Brasil Medico (1904) & Arq. Bras. Psiq. Neurol. Cie. Afins 1(1):5-33, 1905
Authored works with international repercussion
With J. Moreira. La paranoia legitime, son origine et nature (1905)
Novos rumos da medicina legal (1932)
Criminologia (1933)
Sexologia forense (1934)